Mixed Messages: How Primary Agents of Socialization Influence Adolescent Females who Identify as Multiracial–Bisexual

King, Alissa R.

doi:10.1080/19361653.2013.825198

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“…), they are victims of multiple oppressions which, in addition to the former double discrimination, are capable of exacerbating their social marginalisation (see, e.g. Caldwell, 2010;Chun and Singh, 2010;Elia, 2010;King, 2013;Pallotta-Chiarolli, 2014;Rodriguez et al, 2013). From this critical angle, it appears clearer why women respondents fear more than men to declare their sexual orientation in their workplaces: it is a field in which gender disparity is still strong (Biasi and Fiorucci, 2018;Toffanin, 2018).…”

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Being bisexual in contemporary Italy: between stigma and desire of visibility

Monaco

2020

IJSSP

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PurposeThe Italian sociological scientific community has shown a limited interest in issues related to bisexuality. The purpose of this paper is to fill the knowledge gap on the subject, showing data of an empirical research conducted online on the Italian bisexual community.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on a mixed methods online survey on Italian bisexual people, which included 218 interviews. The questionnaire was made up of closed and open-ended questions, to investigate their behaviours, habits and lifestyles.FindingsSocial pressure and lack of understanding by others sometimes make difficult for bisexual people to show themselves openly for what they are, especially in some contexts, such as the word of work. From a sociological point of view, one can argue that one of the tools when bisexual people face the stigma related to bisexuality is to control, often in an obsessive way, the information they provide about themselves, carefully evaluating the contexts in which they can free themselves and the time when they must expose themselves in line with the expectations of the heteronormative society.Research limitations/implicationsThe non-probabilistic sample limits the external validity of the findings. There are also critical elements that characterise social research when transposed online: first, the profiles of the respondents not always are verifiable; second, the digital divide excludes some groups that cannot access the web or involves an over-representation of those who are more familiar with technologies.Originality/valueThe work presented is the first Italian sociological study aimed at deepening the “invisible B” phenomenon of the LGBT acronym in a systematic way. Nowadays bisexuality remains under-researched in social sciences and overall in sociology. Putting “bisexuality” at the centre of the sociological attention appears important to provide serious and scientifically valid data and information useful both to develop the knowledge on this identity category and to contain forms of discrimination and prejudice.

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Section: Prejudices and Double Stigmamentioning

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Being bisexual in contemporary Italy: between stigma and desire of visibility

Monaco

2020

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“…Racial identity models also emphasize the importance of narrative-construction and meaning-making in integrating racial experiences and shaping racial identity (McDowell et al, 2005;Nishimura, 2004;Umaña-Taylor et al, 2014). Narratives influence how the individual internalizes discriminatory experiences (King, 2013). McDowell et al (2005) recommend descriptions of narrative through attention to multiple layers of experiencing in order to assist Multiracial people in processing their race-related experiences and suggest Rigazio-DiGilio and Ivey's (1995) processing model.…”

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“…It encompasses the ways persons of color understand themselves in relation to others and the larger society, and it influences self-concept, well-being, and relationships (Chong and Kuo, 2015). Family interactions are thought to be one of the most critical proximal influences on racial identity (Buckley and Carter, 2004; King, 2013; Root, 1998; Umaña-Taylor et al., 2014).…”

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“…It is also possible that there is a bidirectional relationship between discrimination and identity, such that the Multiracial person’s identity may spark negative treatment from family members. White family members tend to prefer a White or Multiracial identity for their child and see a Black identity as rejecting of them (King, 2013; Rauktis et al., 2016; Snyder, 2012). Thus, a Black identity may generate compounding hostilities toward the Multiracial child.…”

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From my own flesh and blood: An exploratory examination of discrimination from family for Black/White Multiracial people

Franco

Katz

Pickens

et al. 2018

Qualitative Social Work

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This qualitative study examined instances of racial discrimination from family members among 36 Black/White Multiracial individuals. Forms of discrimination included stereotyping, identity invalidation, racist comments, lack of acknowledgment, vicarious discrimination, and negativity. Participants responded to discrimination by distancing themselves from family members, resisting, and/or dismissing discrimination. Discriminatory experiences made race more salient for participants. Participants reported feeling hurt, alienated, and confused following discrimination. Implications of findings for social workers counseling Multiracial people and interracial families are discussed.

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“…These emerged alongside other stories told of girls' bisexuality that together signaled an important and newly emergent component of gendered sexuality for educators to hear. Research shows that girls who identify as bisexual remain peripheral to sexuality research and to many sexual health education programs (Jones & Hillier, 2014;King, 2013;Russell & Seif, 2002). In our study, when girls shared stories about the crushes they had on friends, feeling ostracized by family, affiliations with other queer students, and the pleasure of claiming bisexuality as an identity for themselves, the BBP found that within these varied stories bisexuality offered a placeholder for queer possibilities, a site of teasing and harassment, perhaps, but also and often a source of potential and possibility.…”

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Orienting Toward Possibility: Girls and Bisexuality at School

Mamo

Fields

Gilbert

et al. 2021

Health Promotion Practice

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While many more high school girls identify as bisexual than as lesbian, queer, or other marginalized sexual identities, girls who identify as bisexual remain peripheral to sexuality research and to many sexual health education programs. Nevertheless, research suggests that bisexuality is a distinct claim and experience for girls, marked by highly gendered discourses of sexuality and queerness. Based on the Beyond Bullying Project, a multimedia storytelling project that invited students, teachers, and community members in three U.S. high schools to enter a private booth and share stories of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning) sexuality and gender, this article explores the work the identity “bisexual” and the category “bisexuality” accomplish for girls when claimed for themselves or another or put into circulation at school. We consider the range of meanings and identifications mobilized by bisexuality and, drawing on insights of critical narrative intervention, explore how sexual health and sexuality educators might receive girls’ narratives of bisexuality as capacious and contradictory—as claims to identity, as uncertain gestures toward desire, and as assertions of possibility and resistance. We show that in the assertion of bisexuality, girls align themselves with the surprise of desire and position themselves to resist the disciplining expectations of heteronormative schooling. Critical narrative intervention, with its focus on using stories to challenge the status quo, allows educators and researchers to recognize in girls’ stories of bisexuality, the potential of new approaches to sexual health education and social belonging.

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Mixed Messages: How Primary Agents of Socialization Influence Adolescent Females who Identify as Multiracial–Bisexual

Cited by 16 publications

References 39 publications

Being bisexual in contemporary Italy: between stigma and desire of visibility

Being bisexual in contemporary Italy: between stigma and desire of visibility

From my own flesh and blood: An exploratory examination of discrimination from family for Black/White Multiracial people

Orienting Toward Possibility: Girls and Bisexuality at School

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